CASM: a unified state parameter model for clay and sand (Q4222649)

The goal is to present a simple and unified critical state constitutive model for both clay and sand type behaviour. The ``Clay And Sand Model'' (CASM) is developed using a particular constitutive relation containing a plastic potential (i.e. Rowe's stress-dilatancy criterion) and a non-associated flow rule. The author claims that CASM generalizes classical Cam-clay models, and analyzes the model predictions for drained and undrained behaviour of normally and overconsolidated clays, and for drained behaviour of loose medium and dense sands. A satisfactory agreements is found with experimental results. However, in reviewer's opinion, this model covers only a part of major differences between clay and sand behaviours in experimental tests. In the last decade, special advanced models were developed describing the inelastic behaviour of geomaterials, like hypoplasticity, three-dimensional generalized plasticity, or viscoplasticity. Here only two important monographs are to be mentioned which analyze the above models: \textit{O. C. Zienkiewicz}, \textit{A. H. C. Chan}, \textit{M. Pastor,} \textit{B. A. Schrefler} and \textit{T. Shiomi}, Computational geomechanics with special reference to earthquake engineering. Chichester: Wiley (1999; Zbl 0932.74003); \textit{N. D. Cristescu} and \textit{U. Hunsche}, Time effects in rock mechanics, John Wiley (1998).